Debian-Edu Cartography Team

This page was created to join forces for tasks that provide special skills:

Skills

Additional to general knowledge of geocordinates, any specific skills in handling the different geotools are of great benefit: Perl/Php4 coders are welcome as well as advanced users of xplanet, geosphere, KDE marble or even googleearth.

Joining this team shows that you are ready to help out with specific Debian related issues that are connected to the skills described above. Please, just write down your WikiName. If you wish to introduce yourself, you can use your HomePage.

Members

Xplanet is used to create new maps whenever new schools pop up. This implies running some perl scripts on maintainer that extract coordinates from a Mysql database and exports them to a text file. An impression of our results can be seen at:

This call uses a local config file xplanet.conf that states the location of placemarks and the usage of a locally stored hires map that is also used for the dark side of the globe to avoid any darkness on our map: {{{[earth]

Further options can be found in /usr/share/xplanet/config/default, test in local window like this:

xplanet -radius 300 -latitude 62.2 -longitude 18.3 -config xplanet.conf -timewarp 7200 -window -verbosity 4 -label -wait 1 The wait option could be a way to re-render the map once a day using a background process.